[SeijiSensei]

Originally Posted by Kirarakim

It's from an old game show called "I've Got a Secret".

Spoiler for Showing my age!:

Ah, and my favorite panel, too -- Bill Cullen, Betsy Palmer, Henry Morgan, and Bess Myerson. Bill hosted a number of game shows himself, and Bess later had a career in New York City politics. She was also the first Jew to win the Miss America Pageant. Henry had an ascerbic wit and was a good foil for the more mainstream personalities like moderator Garry Moore and Palmer. Betsy was a B-actress who was probably more famous for appearing on Secret than for her stage and screen roles.

I wish Garry had pushed Betsy a little on how she knew the right answer. As he mentioned, she often acted like a ditzy blonde, though she was probably a pretty sharp cookie.

Originally Posted by Utsuro no Hako

And it's not just the same test -- the entire scene is straight from the film, even down to the nurse administering the test and the room they're in.

Yes, I was pretty sure that the nurse was cribbed from the movie as well, though I didn't remember the room. The two guys left at the end were John Glenn, played by Ed Harris, and Scott Carpenter, played by Charles Frank. All these actors were pretty much nobodies when the film premiered in 1983. I suspect they were chosen more for their physical similarities to the actual astronauts, and being relative unknowns helped the audience suspend disbelief. Many of them like Harris, Scott Glenn, Lance Henrikson, and Dennis Quaid became more famous in the years that followed the film. Harris's excellent portrayal of John McCain in the recent HBO movie Game Change shows he still has the "right stuff."